Facilities and Administration Manager

Interview Date: To be confirmed

Facilities and Administration Manager, you will play a vital role in ensuring the safe, efficient, and effective operation of both services, delivering high-quality, cost-effective facilities and administrative support that enables us to fulfil our mission of transforming lives.

Key Responsibilities:

The role of Facilities and Administration Manager is to provide effective Housing Management and Administration functions within our Residential Lifehouse Service. You will ensure there is a strong focus on customer service and be jointly responsible for ensuring our vision for a high quality support service.

The successful candidate(s) will be able to demonstrate:

• NVQ3 or equivalent professional qualification in related field or willingness to work towards it.
• Demonstrate values of integrity and accountability within working practice.
• Ability to create and manage large budgets.
• Leading and managing staff, including recruitment, development and performance management.
• Monitoring of services in keeping with external and internal contractual targets.
• Building and maintaining strong and effective partnerships with stakeholders, other services and departments, clients and staff.
• Broad knowledge of statutory health and safety requirements.
• Ability to collate and analyse data for production of reports including funding streams for internal and external stakeholders.
• Proficient in a range of IT packages, including Microsoft.
• Ability to develop strategic development plans for both internal and external delivery.
• Ability to monitor systems to ensure client arrears do not exceed an agreed limit.
• Will be able to work within the ethos of The Salvation Army with regard to delivering services to vulnerable people without discrimination

Appointment will be subject to;

• Satisfactory references
• A criminal record check DBS Disclosures Enhanced - Child and Adult with Children and Adult barred list
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• Salary:£35,463.73 Per Annum
• Location:Reading
• Contract Type:Permanent
• Closing Date:12 November 2026
• Hours per Week:40